pf
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Nov 2, 2025first mention
Oct 20, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
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“The pf firewall. Rules you actually understand!”
daily drives FreeBSDon “A brief look at FreeBSD”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- OpenBSD 8.0 2 mentions
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- A brief look at FreeBSD 1 mention
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Also written as PF. Data: pf.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 5
“pf is top tier”
“`pf` makes so much sense.”
“I've always preferred PF to IPT.”
“The pf firewall. Rules you actually understand!”
“Once I did it became much more straightforward to express in my `pf.conf` what I want to do”